Riverdale baseball player's condition rising on Easter

10:52 PM,
Mar. 30, 2013

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Lisa Riggs and her husband Daniel Riggs will spend today where they have been much of the past three weeks - at the bedside of their 16-year-old son Clay Riggs at Monroe Carroll Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt.

However, this Easter Sunday the family will celebrate their son's steadily improving condition, with a first-person understanding of the meaning of the holiday.

"This is one of the true meanings," Lisa Riggs said from a cell phone after washing her son's hair. "The Lord has been with us every step of the way. We know without him, Clay wouldn't be here. To be able to celebrate that he is ...